Rahul Tripathi is a transformational leader with over 20 years of IT industry experience building innovative products, growth businesses and high impact organizations.

Rahul is currently CTO of Customer Success and VP/GM of Xpert Services at Nutanix. He leads solution development, sales and delivery organizations worldwide and partners with customers to drive successful cloud transformation and devops journeys.  

In his prior role as VP of Product at Micro Focus (formerly HP Enterprise Software division), Rahul led product management and engineering teams to transform a billion $ IT Operations Management (ITOM) Software & SaaS portfolio. Before that for over a decade at Cisco, he brought to market industry’s first cloud router, first virtualization enabled branch server and led product teams for Hybrid cloud, Data Center, Security, and SDN solutions.

Rahul has a Bachelors in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS-Pilani, India and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is a well-recognized thought leader and speaker at industry forums and holds multiple patents and certifications.